Rich results relevant to user search queries for books

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering rich results in response to publication queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a publication query. One or more publication search results are obtained. A rich result is triggered based on a score of the first-ranked publication result if it meets a threshold relative to other publication search results. The rich result is populated with additional metadata about the publication obtained from web resources and product resources from multiple corpora. The rich result is provided with the publication search results.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method comprising:
 receiving a query requesting a publication search, the publication search being a search of a corpus of digital book resources that each relate to a particular publication;   obtaining publication search results responsive to the query from the corpus of book resources;   determining that a score for a first publication result ranked first in a ranked order of publication search results satisfies a threshold relative to respective scores of other publication search results, where the first publication result is associated with a publication;   searching a corpus of web resources using data associated with the first publication result to obtain one or more web resources that refer to the publication;   generating a rich result for the first publication result, where the rich result comprises data from the first publication result and the one or more web resources; and   providing the rich result with the publication search results.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the score for the first publication result satisfies the threshold if the score is at least a threshold multiple of a score for a publication search result ranked second in the ranked order of publication search results. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the score for the first publication result satisfies the threshold if the score is at least a threshold multiple of a score for a publication search result ranked third or fourth in the ranked order of publication search results. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein generating the rich result further comprises:
 obtaining price information for the publication; and   including the price information with the rich result.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein obtaining the price information comprises:
 obtaining the price information from a products corpus.   
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the publication is a book. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein obtaining the price information from a products corpus comprises:
 providing a products corpus with an ISBN; and   receiving a price for a book corresponding to the ISBN.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein providing a products corpus with an ISBN comprises obtaining the ISBN from the data associated with the first publication result. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein generating a rich result comprises correcting data from the corpus of book resources using data from the web resources. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein correcting data from the corpus of book resources comprises:
 comparing the data from the corpus of book resources with one or more variants of the data from the web resources; and   selecting the most popular variant for the rich result.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the rich result further comprises a publication snippet. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein the snippet is a publication excerpt. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein the snippet is a publication summary. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the rich result further comprises one or more authors of the publication. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , further comprising correcting the one or more authors of the publication using data from the web resources. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the rich result further comprises a link to a preview of the publication. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more web resources comprise links to related websites. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more web resources comprise links to book seller websites. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the rich result further comprises publisher information for the publication. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 19 , wherein the publisher information comprises a link to a website of a publisher of the publication.